In this book, Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983), a Dutch woman, tells about her life in the years 1892–1945. Loyalty to principles such as honesty, justice, and compassion for people led the ten Booms during the Second World War to open the doors of their home to shelter Jews and Dutch resistance fighters from Nazi persecution. Having survived the horrors and inhuman cruelty of a concentration camp, after the war Corrie devoted herself to work helping to rehabilitate victims of Nazism.